Meaning & use

fly

verb·Everyday

To move through the air using wings or an aircraft.

See it in a sentence

The geese fly south together every autumn before the first snowfall.

We flew to Tokyo for a two-week vacation last summer.

A note on using this word

Fly is irregular: flew is the past tense and flown the past participle, unlike regular verbs ending in -ed.

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Another way to use it

2. noun

A small flying insect with two wings, common around food and waste.

A fly kept landing on the fruit left out on the counter.

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